Conference : The Dynamic of Multi-dimensional Poverty in Cameroon: international Trade as an alternative solution to the fight against poverty

Marienne MAKOUDEM TENE  is a Research Officer in the Department of Economic and Environmental Studies at the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation in Cameroon. At the same time, she is doing a PhD in Development Economics at the University of Dschang-Cameroon. She earned her Master of Science in Economics in 2008 at the same University and a Postgraduate Diploma in International Trade Policy and Development in 2015 at the Trade Policy Training Centre in Africa (trapca) in Tanzania. Her field of interest is: poverty, international trade, gender and volunteering. She has co-published three articles and participated in four applied research projects in her research centre. She was a junior research fellow at the Graduate Institute of Geneva under the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for International Students for a year. Marienne is the

President of the think tank Africa 21-Cameroon which is newly created and aims at following up the implementation of the SDGs in Cameroon in liaison with Africa 21 based in Geneva-Switzerland. Besides all that, Marienne is raising funds to implement a project called «A banana tree for education» that aims at sponsoring the education of brilliant children from poor families in Cameroon. She has volunteered twice for the NGO Initiative of Change in Caux (Zwitzerland). Marienne is married with five children.